All 4 Uses of
ostentatious
in
Catch-22
- …herself about to the synthetic jitterbug music with more uninhibited pleasure than he had ever observed until he felt his legs falling asleep with boredom and yanked her off the dance floor toward the table at which the girl he should have been screwing was still sitting tipsily with one hand around Aarfy's neck, her orange satin blouse still hanging open slovenly below her full white lacy brassiere as she made dirty sex talk ostentatiously with Huple, Orr, Kid Sampson and Hungry Joe.†
Chpt 16
- There was none of that crude, ugly ostentation about dying that was so common outside the hospital.†
Chpt 17
- 'I couldn't agree with you more, sir,' he assented briskly in a tone of ostentatious disapproval.†
Chpt 25
- He smiled ostentatiously to show himself reasonable and nice.
Chpt 27 *ostentatiously = in a manner intended to attract notice and impress others
Definition:
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(ostentatious) intended to attract notice and impress others -- especially with wealth in a vulgar way